President Obama will target Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., during his campaign swing through Texas on Tuesday, according to an excerpt of the president’s prepared remarks.
“I’d like Mr. Cantor to come down here to Dallas and explain what in this jobs bill he doesn’t believe in,” Obama will say, reacting to Cantor’s declaration on Monday that the House won’t vote on the president’s American Jobs Act in its entirety.
“Come tell Dallas construction workers why they should be sitting home instead of fixing our bridges and schools,” Obama’s speech continues. “Come tell the small business owners and workers in this community why you’d rather defend tax breaks for millionaires than tax cuts for the middle class. And if you won’t do that, at least put this jobs bill up for a vote so that the entire country knows exactly where every member of Congress stands.”
The president’s jobs bill has little chance of passing Congress in its entirety. But Obama wants the bill to be voted on anyway, so he can blame Republicans when it’s rejected by the GOP-controlled House.
